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2008-06-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Mike 2008-06-06 06:32|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Today and every 06-06 I put the audiobook D-Day by Ambrose on at work. Also a good quick read is Pegasus Bridge.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-06-06 09:44|| 2008-06-06 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 The boys of Point-Du-Hoc

Posted by Beavis 2008-06-06 10:18|| 2008-06-06 10:18|| Front Page Top

#3 It seems as if every year the significance of D-Day slides further and further into history. Good to see articles such as this posted as reminders of how significant D-Day was. There was a lot put on the line on June 6, 1944.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-06-06 10:57|| 2008-06-06 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 D-Day on 6 June and Midway on 4 June were to WWII as Gettysburg & Vicksburg (nearly the same day in 1863) were to the USCW. D-Day gets a lot of press as it should just a Gettysburg does, though lets not forget the other battles that happened simulataneously and were just as tactically/strategically important.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-06-06 12:13|| 2008-06-06 12:13|| Front Page Top

#5 My own thoughts, as the memory of this slips away from the living and into history - here.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-06-06 18:50|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2008-06-06 18:50|| Front Page Top

#6 There was one unit of the 507th Parachute Infantry that was dropped 20 miles from their drop zone. These 181 men held of an SS Panzergrenadier Devision for 6 days, allowing the 101st to capture Carantan. They are almost never heard of. They had to leave their wounded behind when forced to fall back and the SS troops murdered about 30 of them as well as the two Priests and their housekeepers in the town the Americans were defending. The SS also murdered more civilians.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-06-06 20:34|| 2008-06-06 20:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Also on this day 90:years ago Belleau Wood.

Posted by Pappy 2008-06-06 21:05|| 2008-06-06 21:05|| Front Page Top

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